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by zdean 3347 days ago
What makes you sure it doesn't cause cancer...because it's not an atomic weapon?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/iraq.military

"The amount of DU used during the Iraq war has not been revealed, although some estimate it was more than a thousand tons."
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gozur88 3347 days ago
Why are you bringing up DU?
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zdean 3347 days ago
DU is used in warheads >> DU releases radiation >>> radiation causes cancer. Therefore, you could link the bombs that use DU to cancer.

In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminants that come with 22,000 pounds of explosives dropped in a relatively small area (not to mention the 10s of thousands of smaller bombs being dropped throughout that country and other war zones).

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gozur88 3347 days ago
>DU is used in warheads >> DU releases radiation >>> radiation causes cancer. Therefore, you could link the bombs that use DU to cancer.

All that is true and totally irrelevant, since DU is used almost exclusively in anti-armor kinetic rounds. This is just a really big firecracker.

>In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminants that come with 22,000 pounds of explosives dropped in a relatively small area...

Are there? Do you have some reason to think that's true?

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zdean 3346 days ago
Read the article linked to in my earlier comment.
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gozur88 3346 days ago
What does it have to do with the subject article? Again, there's no DU in this bomb.
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